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(Clockwise from Left: Carol Channing, Marlon Brando, Georgia O’Keeffe,
William Faulkner, Gore Vidal, Lynn Fontanne,
Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Salvador Dali, Gertrude Stein, W.E.B. DuBois)
From 1946-1956, the
celebrated photographer Carl Van Vechten mailed thousands of portrait postcards to his friend, Karl
Priebe, a Wisconsin artist whose personal papers reside in Marquette University’s Department of
Special Collections & Archives.
Marquette is pleased to publish these postcards depicting hundreds of notable individuals from
the first half of the twentieth century. Photographed by Van Vechten between 1932 and 1956, the
portraits constitute a veritable “who’s who” of prominent persons in the twentieth century
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